A ruling from the Supreme Court that liberals hate might actually help them win the
culture war against Ronda Santis. And why are the writers about to strike in
Hollywood? I'm gonna tell you when it's got me feeling a little like a
fraud. And restaurants and the national anthem it's creepy. Wait till we talk
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A ruling from the Supreme Court that liberals have hated for a long time,
including myself, may help win the culture war against Ronda Santis when it
comes to Disney. We're gonna talk about that, but before I do,
I would just like to say I went out Saturday night with Steve. We
went to the Star of the Desert Arena in prim Nevada. It's a great
arena. It's older, was built in nineteen ninety four and I don't think
they changed the carpet since. But it's really gone R and B and Stephen
never been to an all black concert, and that's really what I grew up
with. So I was right at home, people wave in their hand and
screaming, you better sang. And we went to see and I loved that.
By the way, I ain't culturally appropriate, and that is my culture.
That's where I came from. When I'm at a concert, if I
can't scream out you better sang, bitch, then I ain't at the right
concert. Okay. So we went to see Stephanie Mills and she did not
disappoint. I saw Stephanie Mills first on one drama in like nineteen seventy five
or seventy six, something like that. I was like fourteen years old and
she had been cast in The Whiz on Broadway. And she went on one
darrama which was Kids Our People to Waka Doo, Waka Doo, Waka doo,
and she sang home and that was it. That From that moment on,
I loved her. I danced all her songs in the eighties and nineties,
and when she went to ballads and the two thousands, I sang along
with her in the two thousands, and I've loved her she's sixty six,
she looks in ratible, and yeah, she's outspoken, and she's the one
that got in trouble for saying that, you know, Diana Ross, Beyonce
is not Diana Ross, and you know what, I'm with her on that.
So anyway, I loved her. I loved the show. It was
great getting out and I gotta tell you, I went for free. Now,
I've gone to concerts for free in my whole life as media, but
this time I didn't. The management actually didn't call me back. I called
twice, management didn't call me back. That's how they are nowadays. They
get so many calls from people, influences whatever, they just don't call people
back. But anyway, so I joined LV House Seats Las Vegas House Seats.
Now I know I have a lot of listeners in the Bay Area and
Reno. They have this in those areas too, And you pay one hundred
and forty nine bucks a year, including text messages which you want, and
when a great show has extra seats, they give them to LV house Seats
and then they send you a text message. Well, about a week and
a half ago, I got a text message, Hey, you want to
see Stephanie Mills, and I said, yes, I do. We had
great seats. We had wonderful seats and they were free. Now I'm sad
about that because Stephanie didn't make the money, but actually she did. She
made her money for that night. And since we bought drinks and Steve bought
you know stuff, the casino made its money, the venue made their money.
It was all fine, and we had a great time. So if
you're in the Bay Area or Reno or several other places, I would join
house seats. It's called houseats dot com and it's a great way to get
out. We've Steve and I have gone to three news. It's paid for
itself. We've gone to like three shows. So it was great. And
Stephanie Mills the bomb would I will pay, you know, I'd pay to
see her, and I don't pay to see many concerts see if I don't
go as media or whatever. But she was great. It was a splurge.
We had a good time. I left Ember alone. Oh God,
Ember has a luck stating patella. Okay. When I got home, she
was so excited she threw her kneecap out and started screaming in pain and I
already felt guilty enough about leaving her. Bridget babysat for me, which was
nice, but oh god, the drama when I got home and then I
massaged her leg and finally she got better, and oh lord, that just
makes me not want to leave her. But anyway, it was great.
It was a great show. So Rhonda Santis is now the board of this
Disney district is suing Disney because Disney is suing the board and Rhonda Santis,
and how is this going to end? While legal experts have weighed in,
and you know what might help save the day here? Citizens United. That
horrible ruling that Republicans pushed through to give corporations personhood, which means corporations have
been able to enjoy rights under the Constitution like free speech. Well, if
this is if Citizens United is applied in this case, desantists is punishing Disney
because they supported the anti They actually they were against that don't Say Gay law.
They supported those who were against the don't Say Gay law. And under
Citizens United, it is that corporation's right if they want to speak out against
the don't Say Gay law, it is their constitutional right to freedom of speech.
Republicans are the ones who gave corporations personhood, and now under Citizens United,
Disney actually has legal legs to stand on improving that all of this has
been political retaliation for them opposing Round Santists. That's the essence of the First
Amendment, speaking truth to power without fear of repercussion. This is the exact
reason the First Amendment exists for people, for you and I. In other
words, a governor or a senator shouldn't be able to come after you for
speaking out against them and ruin your business and ruin your life. That's protected
under the First Amendment. Your speech. Well, under Citizens United, which
give corporations personhood, Disney's speech, Disney's objection to the don't say gay law
would be protected under freedom of speech. And Disney knows this, and they've
got more money and more lawyers than Florida or Ronda. Santists and Republicans know
this, and they're scared. They're scared that De Santists is going to lose
against Mickey Mouse, and if he does, it will not look good for
a presidential bid. It also doesn't look good that he is taking on private
corporations for their public views. Because Republicans are frightened that in states like California
that Gavin Newsom could now put places out of business, you know, find
them, censure them, make regulations against them if they are not on the
democratic or progressive side of things. And so Republicans actually are not supporting Ronda
Santists. Meanwhile, Disneyland in California's having their first sanctioned gay event after hours.
It's during Pride month, and they did that, unfortunately, not to
support the gay community. And I mean that, you know, they're doing
it more to smite ron Da Santis. It's you know, they've had a
chance. You know, Pride's been going on as long as I am almost
as long as I am old, since nineteen sixty nine. They've had a
chance. Over the last what fifty four years, they've had the chance to
support gay pride. But on the Gay Pride Day that happens where everyone wears
a red shirt, they actually were giving people that didn't you know, that
accidentally wore red shirts and didn't want to identify as gay. They would actually
give them a Disney shirt so they didn't have to be you know, assumed
to be gay. Now they're doing a full on gay night. Well,
that's Ron De Santis is doing. Okay, So they're doing that to anger
round Santis, not to really please the gays, but oh well, the
gays will go and enjoy it and support it. I would perform there,
but I couldn't find out who handles the talent. I spent probably thirty minutes
on the phone with Disney Corporate in both Orlando and California trying to find out
who was booking talent for that night, and they couldn't tell me. They
don't know. They honestly did not know. That's how messed up Disney is
when it comes to who handles their talent. They were they were given me
the names of people that handled like their dancers at nights and what No,
who's booking the talent for them? Oh well that would be a third party?
What third party? Well, we don't know, you don't know.
Whatever. So Citizens United, which I hated, could actually turn around and
bite the Republicans in the ass, and I hope it does. I hope
Ronda Santis because look, we gotta start, you know, stopping evil in
its tracks. I'm glad Disney has money and is standing up to De Santis.
I wish more people with money would stand up to these horrifying people because
they're decimating our nation. And you know, if they win, they're projected
to win the House and Senate. If they do, we are done as
a nation. And I mean I'm not being you know, we talk a
lot. There's a lot of them things. It's like hyperbole or exaggeration,
or the sky is falling? How many chunks have to hit you in the
head before you realize the sky actually is falling? I mean, how many
how much of the sky has to collapse upon you before you realize it's actually
falling. It's like climate change the Pacific Northwest, including Canada, where I
would love to be in Vancouver. I'm number two hundred and twelve there today
on the podcast charts. How many of you will believe that there is a
giant heat wave coming this summer for Vancouver for seattles? All right, when
we come back, what are the writers strugging about when they go week go
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am Correl, why are the writers about to strike? And what will it
mean to your entertainment? A lot? Actually, back when it happened in
two thousand and seven, a reality TV took over because they don't have a
lot of writers and be the quality of television went way down, and then
the actors and craftsman joined in the strike and production shut down. A lot
of your shows didn't get full seasons or just sort of end it abruptly.
So it will affect the entertainment that you see. But why are they striking?
Well, I heard the report on NPR this morning and I heard writers
interviewed, and it struck me because I woke up worried this morning. And
one of the topics I wanted to do for you today was, you know,
sometimes you feel like a fraud. You know, you get up and
you put on that happy face and you get yourself in a good mood,
but inside there's a storm. You know, inside you're tumultuous, Inside,
you're depressed. Inside, you're really worried, but you can't let your wife
or husband know or the kids, or your employer or whatever. So you
put on that game face and you get out there and you try to inspire
others. You try to lift others up, You try to be supportive of
others when inside you're I don't want to say slowly dying, but inside you're
afraid. And I come out here every day and I project this image to
you. It's not an image I don't project. It's real what you see.
But a lot of times I don't let you in on exactly how bad
or badly I'm feeling inside. You don't want to hear it. You don't
need to hear it. It doesn't help you. But I'm really worried about
money. Now. I've had the actual blessing to be disabled. I know
that sounds really weird, but between my sag Aftra and my soul security,
you know, I get and with Patreon, which I am allowed, I'm
allowed up to thirteen hundred a month on disability, so I'm allowed the seven
hundred from Patreon. So between that, you know, I get about forty
five about almost sixty about fifty five sixty grand a year all told. Now,
that's not really enough to live in today's world. But it's a lot
more than a lot of people are making. And so I've been blessed.
I need more. Everybody does. That's poverty level. We've proven fifty seven
thousand dollars a year or below in America right now is basically poverty level where
you're just meeting your bills. You do not have extra money for like anything.
I haven't traveled in so long because it's an other than long beach for
doctors. And so I woke up thinking, how are you going to exploit
what you have? If you type into Google how much does the average podcast
make? It says five to nine hundred a month, I'm right in that
range. And if you type you know, so I'm a how are you
get? Like married men? And it got lost during COVID. It's a
great song and disco is happening right now. I want to rerelease it.
That takes money, a house version of Stronger Together. I believe in it.
It takes money, and I can't keep getting in my own debt using
my own money. And this is where the topic of the writer strike comes
in. I don't you know there the money making opportunities in entertainment are drying
up, so writers there when the episode they have written airs, they get
their one hundred percent residual for that episode, their negotiated rate that they have
been paid for that episode. But remembers TV series have gone from twenty three
episodes, I mean, Law and Order still does twenty three and such,
but many are now twelve or even eight episodes per season, and so the
number of episodes has been cut, so their income has been cut there.
And then when it comes to residuals, if you watch Abbot Elementary, the
writers get one hundred percent of the residual for the first time it airs,
the second time or every time they're after that it would air. In the
past, they would get a fifty percent residual, half of their normal residual.
But streamers where everything is going now, ABCNBCCBS, they don't play their
sitcoms and stuff over and over again like they used to syndication. You know,
there's no such thing anymore syndication really I on TV and such, they're
considered streamers and they pay a five percent residual, not fifty. So people
who used to be getting checks for ten thousand, thirty thousand, twenty thousand,
they're now getting checks no lie for five dollars, seven dollars twelve dollars.
Emmy winning writers for television shows in between the seasons, which is a
long period now, have literally said they have to drive for Uber and they
have an Emmy for writing television that you love, and they struggle to make
the bills and the rent. Now in these are people with Emmy's far more
famous than I, and in between seasons, they're struggling financially because of streaming,
and now with AI, they want to assure, they want assurances from
television that they're not going to have scripts written by AI, and they're already
doing it. People. People are already saying, write me an episode of
Friends, and the AI is spitting one out and while it's not perfected yet,
it will be. And writers are very afraid of that and should be.
And so they're trying to negotiate in their deals that these companies Netflix and
ABC and stuff will not use AI to write scripts. And so the companies
are saying no, And so the writers are going to go on strike because
they have no other choice, because they cannot make a living anymore, even
if they're writing for shows like Avid Elementary or your favorite television shows on Netflix
or whatever, your favorite series that you see the writers, and there are
no there is no great television without a writer. And yet the directors and
the producer like you know, Seanda Rhymes and Ryan Murphy, they make multiples
of millions of dollars, but they don't write the stuff. Some of them,
some episodes are written by them, but not many. It all goes
back to the writer. Magazines, newspapers, they're now using AI. They're
using people with no writing experiences. Typos they're everywhere, grammatical errors they're everywhere,
and real writers such as myself, we can't get hired. And if
they we do that acause I thought this morning, while you could start writing
again in your you know, in off time, you know, you maybe
should approach radio. But radio is not hiring. Radio's firing. Stephanie Miller
has a Patreon. She's only doing one Sexy Liberal tour this year because of
cost. How Sparks you know, donations Patreon, David Packman donations Patreon.
They're not making a lot of money, they're making enough. And while steph
ain't poor, she comes from money. And while you know none of these,
you know, how Sparks makes more touring with his Van Halen you know
nerd Halen band that he does, doing a talk show. And so the
whole business of entertainment streaming is killing it. My friend Thea used to get
residual checks every year for rhythm as a dancers celebrating thirty years. You still
hear it on all the streaming. I hear it every day. You probably
do too if you listen to music. She got a check from Spotify for
our five hundred and sixty dollars for a hundred thousand screen streams. That would
normally be a ten thousand dollars check if she was getting paid the royalty.
And who's making the money? Spotifies making that money. The difference between the
five hundred and the ten thousand, that nine thousand, nine hundred or nine
thousand, five hundred dollars that's going in Spotify's pocket. Apple Music is making
a fortune, not the people on it. And what's so wal who made
these deals these companies said, if you want to be on our service,
if you want your music distributed, this is what we pay, like it
or lumpet be and my music might go out of business because there's other ways
to collect royalties now and writers aren't making as much royalties as GAP is having
financial difficulties publishing companies that publish the music that collect the royalties because the royalties
just aren't there. So the writers are striking to try to protect what little
income they have coming in now, and streamers in the networks don't want to
do it. They act like they can exist without riders and now with AI
maybe they can wow chef up, big wow, making yours device a whole
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He does correl Cast. I am Correll. I mean, just a big
wow before we move on to the national anthem and restaurants. And that's why
it had me feeling like a fraud, because you know, I have to
be happy during the day. I can. I am blessed. I cannot
be depressed because I am blessed. I own my home, I have food.
You know I'm not driving for Uber yet, you know I'm blessed.
I have Ember. She has good health care because she's insured. Ninety six
dollars a month. I pay for her insurance. Now, So in the
grand scheme, I'm blessed. But as I told the universe this morning,
I'm not done. I want to do more, and every creative person out
there, We're not done. We want to do more. As Adell collects
a million two for one night, there's a hundred artists here in Las Vegas
that can barely pay the bills because the venues pay one artist and the other
people that work there Spotify it is raping music artist Apple Music, God bless
them. Like my podcast is charting on Apple Podcasts right now as we speak
in the top two hundred. Am I making any money from Apple at all?
No? Am I driving people to their platform? Yes? Now they
have partner programs set up and this and that that you can get involved in.
It's not worth the effort. You do it and you end up making
two hundred bucks and you have to go through a ton of work. And
so we just we are devaluing everybody in the arts. We're devaluing music.
And meanwhile the met galats going on and you doze a cat this and blahdah
blah that. Yes, there are like thirty people in music making money and
nobody else even Gay Pride events. They're booking huge stars now, Mariah Carey,
Grace Jones. That means the budget for the smaller acts has been cut.
So travel budgets are being cut, Hotel budgets are being cut, personal
appearance fees are being cut. They used to give people like Crystal Waters or
thea you know, three grand, five grand, seven grand to go do
you know? Three five songs? Now it's fifteen hundred, a thousand and
your own travel expenses, and we are devaluing all of it. And it's
just so sad. It's so sad the writers even have to strike. Without
writers, there's no entertainment. I just happened to be a content I'm a
writer. You know, many podcasts people their podcast has written for them,
someone helps them write it, you know, without creativity and art, we
just are such a valueless people, you know. And I'm blessed that I
get seven hundred a month from Patreon. It used to be twelve hundred.
But I guess a lot of you don't like me anymore, or a lot
of you are broke, or my message ain't getting out or what. I
don't know, maybe I'm not promoting it right. I don't know, but
I'm not alone. You know, everyone's numbers have gone down, and meanwhile
I come out here three times a week trying to make your view of the
world, you know, a little different. Writers try to write things that
make you think and entertain you, like Ghosts, the show Ghost on TV.
The writing is hysterical and wonderful. But those writers, they're not making
much money from Paramount plus streamer. They make their hundred percent residual when it
airs the first time on CBS, but then when I watch it on Paramount
Plus, they're not getting much money from my stream at all. That's not
right. Now. What can you do about it? What can I do
about it? You can support artists you love. You can go to more
live performances, like I went to see Stephanie Mills. Even if it's through
LV house Seats or throughhouse seats dot Com. You're still going to support the
venue. You're still gonna give money there, and the artist has been paid
unless it goes to I would never take house seats for an event where the
artist is getting a percentage of the door for like smaller shows. I would
only do it for the big, big shows in the big arena. They
give away tons of seats anyway, and they always have. But I would
never do it for a show where it's like a hundred people or two hundred
people, I would pay because that goes right to the artist. Stephanie got
her guarantee, paid up front. The promoter paider whether my ticket was free
or not, that you know, that doesn't matter. And the promoter made
money off the alcohol sales, made money off the merchandise sales made money.
So the promoter got their money. And it's a forty five hundred seat venue.
They got their money after two thousand seats were sold at you know,
fifty seventy eighty one hundred dollars a ticket. So I don't badly about that.
But a smaller show i'd buy unless I was invited as media, in
which case I'm working. I'm providing a service. I'm publicizing their show.
And even today by telling you all to go see Stephanie Mills, to go
buy a ticket to see Stephanie Mills, you know, that's promotion. Promotion
isn't free. So I heard in California, Fairfield, someone was dining.
They were filming their pancakes on TikTok, and right then the national anthem came
on in the restaurant and people stood up and did their whole whatever, and
under the comments it said, oh, yeah, this happened in Marietta,
That's happened here, That's happened there. So there seems to be businesses now,
like restaurants starting to play the national anthem anthem I hate, by the
way, I think I hate that. A. It's a British song.
B. It was written during war about war, rockets and bombs, and
they make it seem noble that we can blow shit up and that war,
you know, it's steeped in war. You know, the greatest generation will
be a generation that lives without war. So America the Beautiful should actually be
our national anthem. But that being said, these people just randomly playing the
national anthem and expecting people to stand up. Have you seen Cabaret? Okay,
Cabaret, If you haven't seen it, you should either the play or
the movie. Cabaret is in the there's a scene where they're all out in
the country, the Baron and Liza and Michael York, where they're all they're
having it. They were a thruttle and they were a thruple. They were
all sleeping with the baron. They're out there and a Nazi youth stands up
and start singing Tomorrow belongs to me, the Nazi youth theme, Oh Father,
the land, Father, lanchas your pride. And they show how even
people who are uneasy about it all stand up because if they don't, there'll
be repercussions. That's exactly what this is. It is exactly out of the
Nazi playbook. It is creepy, it is wrong, this forced sense of
patriotism that the right has claimed. These people who know nothing about patriotism or
their country or the constitution, but will condemn you if you do not stand
for the national anthem. I don't stand for the national anthem. Screw the
national lanthem. You're not gonna tell me when and how I'm going to have
pride in my country. You know when Whitney Houston saying it, it gave
me great joy. Why because of the performance, there wasn't some false sense
of patriotism, The land of the free, the home of the brave.
If you're so free, you'd be free to sit for the national anthem.
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